Beverage cooler and dispensing apparatus.



Patented Feb. 6, i900.

No. 642,85I.

A. SIDUTI.

BEVERAGE COOLER AND DISPENSING APPARATUS.

(Application filed Sept. 21, 189B.)

2 Sheets-Sheet l.

(No Model.)

Wij/165565, CM

l @6HL/Ld,

1H: mams Patins co. pHoro-uno.. WASHINST'ON. D, c.

No. 642,85l.

Patented Feb. 6, |900. A. SIDTI.

BEVERAGE COLER AND DISPENSING APPARATUS.

(Application filed Sept. 21, 1898.)

2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

(No Model.)

Inverlor nonio SUZ'L' M/HeSSeS Uivrrnn STATES ATENT Gerlos,

ANToNio sIDori, or DALLAs, rrExAs.

SPECIFICATION :forming part of Letters Patent No. 642,851, dated February 6, 1900.

Application filed September 21, 1898. Serial No. 691,546. (Novmodel.)

T0 @ZZ wiz/0m zt' may concern:

Be it known that I, ANTONIO SIDoTI, a resident of Dallas, in the county of Dallas and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Beverage Coolers and Dispensing Apparatus; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to cooling and dispensing beverages, and has for its object to provide a simple and economical cooler and dispenser capable of general use.

The invention consists in the construction herein described and pointed out.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a central vertical section of the apparatus. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same. Fig. 3 is a partial section of a modification.

Numeral 1 denotes an ice-holder or refrigerating vessel of any usual or desired form and dimensions. In Fig. 1 it is represented as a plain metallic bucket, having a removable cover 2 of usual form, except that its rim 3 is provided with slots 4to receive tubes when the cover is in place on the vessel.

11 denotes supplemental covers for the slots or for tubes situated in the slots, said covers 4; being fixed to the main cover.

5 denotes an elastic or flexible packing attached to each tube and situated in the tubecovers 4' when the parts are properly assembled. These packings aid in excluding access of air to the refrigerator.

Although a separate-covered slot is shown for each tube, the several tubes might be so bent and grouped as to pass through a single slot. An ordinary open-topped wooden or other refrigerator can be adapted to receive the tubes and connected parts of the new construction by providing one or more suitable slots in the upper edge of a side wall.

6 denotes a frame, preferably of metal, to support ice, and 7 is an outlet for water, which may be omitted in some cases.

The ice-support is not essential in all cases and may have any convenient form. It is in the instance illustrated shown adapted to hold centrally beverage chambers or coolers 8, to be described, or such coolers may be held in seats 9 on the bottom of the refrigerator. It is not essential that the walls of these seats 9 be continuous.

10 denotes a funnel-shaped attachment of the ice-support, adapted to guide the refrigerated water from the melting ice onto the cooler 8. The extensions 6 of the ice-support are contiguous the wall of the cooler and adapted to quickly absorb heat from it and from its contents. The descent of ice-water between these extensions and the cooler-wall is retarded by capillary action, whereby heat is more thoroughly conducted from the cooler to the extensions and radiated outwardly.

The features last described contribute to economy in ice, since they provide for bringing ice-cold water and air in contact with the inner cooler orbeverage-receptacle 8 in manner to most efficiently abstract its heat, since the metal frame 6 and the ice-water absorb heat more readily than air; but the use of various refrigerating mixtures or agents is contemplated-fas, for example, a mixture of saltand broken ice-and in such case the icesupport can be dispensed with and also the drainage-outlet.

Tubes adapted to communicate each with a cask or other liquid-holder are denoted by 11, and 12 are cut-off cocks.l

13 denotes couplings.

Couplings for joining tubes la and other tubes communicating directly with casks are denoted by 13' and cocks to close the latter tubes by 12.

1A are flexible tubes, and 15 indicates casks. The casks have no communication with each other nor with a common source of supply, as the object of one part of the improvement is to provide an apparatus including a 'cooler for drawing distinct liquids separately in equal or in any desired ratio, the same apparatus being adapted for drawing each liquid solely.

The tubes 11 each communicate with the upper part of a cooler 8 bya tube 1G, held in a coupling-tube 17.

Draw-off tubes are denoted by 18, each having a cock 19 and coupling 20.

Tubes which may be flexible are denoted by 21, and 22 denotes a dispensing-tube and 23 a faucet common to. both tubes 21.

IOO

The tubes 18 each communicate with the lower part of a cooler S by a tube 24, held in the coupling-tube 17.

The coupling-tube 17 constitutes a cap or closure for the cooler or coolers 8 and is convenientlyjoined therewith bya screw-ring 21', having one or more handles 22 whereby it can be manipulated.

23 denotes a packing.

23 is a packing for the upper end of a par tition S'.

The coupling-tube 17 comprises telescoping sections, one of which is open at both ends and has a flange to engage the screw-ring 2l. The other is closed at its top and carries the tubes. By this construction the couplingtube is adapted to be suspended by tubes, such as ll and 1S, from the upper edge of vessels of different heights.

The purpose of the construction including the slotted cover is to provide for using the coolerl with vessels of different size and also to provide easily-detachable connections to permit introduction and removal of the cooler and pipes without uncoupling and by simply lowering or lifting the cooler and its connecting-pipes when the cover is oft.

The several tubes ll and 1S being fixed to the coupling-tube, which is fixed to the cooler, are adapted to suspend the latter from the upper edge of the refrigerator, and it is not essential that the cooler shall rest on the bottom of the refrigerator, though the latter construction lnay be adopt-ed when desired, as in case the refrigerator is used for other purposes and the cooler is liable to be disturbed by the introduction and removal of various articles. 4

By the described construction liquids may be drawn from a plurality of casks, cooled, and then dispensed mixed through the tube 22 and faucet 23, or another cock may be closed and liquid dispensed without drawing from the cask corresponding to the closed cock. Two or more beverages, such as ale and porter or fresh and stale beer, may be thus cooled and dispensed mixed or unmiXed at will. The

improved devices are not, however, limited to the dispensing of two or more liquids, but are adapted for servin g a single beverage,in which case all but one cooler and its cooperating devices may be omitted.

If two or more coolers are used, they may each be provided with a cap coupling-tube 17,

as shown in Fig. 3. Instead of separate ves* sels the coolers may consist of compartments or chambers formed by partitions 8', as indicated in Fig. 1. The cooler and its supply and dispensing tubes are separate from the vessel containing the cooling agent and readily removable and replaceable. They can be applied to vessels or refrigerators of usual form without the necessity of perforating their walls except at a free edge either of the vessel or of its cover.

The terms ice-holder am refrigerator are intended herein to include a suitable receptacle for any refrigeratin g agent, and the term chambers or cooling-chambers to include either separate vessels ora single vessel having internal partitions, and the term funnel any inclined parts adapted to direct ice-water against the cooler, and it is iinmaterial Whether the slots to hold thetubes are situated in the cover-rim or in the upper edge of the holder for the cooling agent.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In an apparatus for cooling and dispensing liquids, a holder for a refrigeratin g agent, a removable cover therefor, a cooler situated within the holder, and inlet and draw-off pipes attached to the cooler-top and resting upon the upper edge of the side wall of the holder beneath the cover, said cover being slotted to receive the pipes and provided with supplemental covers for said slots, as and for the purposes stated.

2. In combination with ad mission and drawoff tubes and with a cooler, a tubular coupling holding said tubes and comprising telescoping sections, one carrying the tubes, and the other fixed to the cooler, and togetherconstituting a removable cap for the cooler, and means for tightly connecting said tubular coupling with the cooler.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ANTONIO SIDOTI. Witnesses:

J No. D. COLE,

M. E. WATERS. 

